Audience: Nonprofits

Skills-Based Volunteering Day of Service Goes Virtual in Response to COVID-19

In March 2020, as the coronavirus situation was unfolding, S&P Global and Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center (REC) partnered with Common Impact for a skilled volunteer day of service. The project was intended to be implemented in person, but the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic required Common Impact to help the teams quickly transition to a safer, remote format. Common Impact reconfigured the project into …

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Resourcing Disaster Response Operations of the American Red Cross

Every eight minutes, the American Red Cross responds to someone in crisis. The organization provides vital relief services, including shelter, food and healthcare, in over 60,000 disasters each year. The American Red Cross solicits donations of IT products, such as laptops, iPads or cell phones, to help their field staff maintain connectivity and facilitate critical …

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S2E7: Cheryl Timoney, Salesforce.org

S2E07: Cheryl Timoney, Salesforce.org

I’ve had so many employees from every part of the world reach out [about Salesforce.org’s pro bono program]. I see them organizing themselves to support customers, I see them building new solutions, I see them coming up with all kinds of really creative ways to help our sector. It’s been so heartening to witness all the ways our employees and people in general are finding ways to help each other.

Fundraising Freedom Podcast with Mary Valloni

Fundraising Freedom host Mary Valloni interviews Common Impact CEO Danielle Holly on how she got her start in skills-based volunteering, Common Impact’s Disaster Resiliency initiative and how professionals can donate their talent to help nonprofits in this difficult time.

Nonprofit Quarterly: Direct Service Volunteers Stay Home in Droves—Now What?

As anxieties surrounding COVID-19 have spread rapidly over the past week, the nonprofit sector has been dealing with the sunk costs and vanishing revenue associated with cancelled events and the concomitant drop in funding as it confronts the possibility of a global recession. One of the less discussed but strongly felt results of this public …

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S2E5: Cecily Joseph, Net Impact

S2E05: Cecily Joseph, Net Impact

The talent is there, but we need to proactively go out and look for it and we also need to be thoughtful about creating diverse entry points for talent.